When installed, users can click a single button to resolve a blocked domain via foreign DNS servers, bypassing all domestic DNS blockades and allowing the user to browse the site though the bare IP-address (if supported).

I feel that the general public is not aware of the gravity of SOPA and Congress seems like they are about to cater to the special interests involved, to the detriment of Internet, for which I and many others live and breathe, DeSopa developer T Rizk told TorrentFreak.

It could be that a few members of congress are just not tech savvy and dont understand that it is technically not going to work, at all. So heres some proof that I hope will help them err on the side of reason and vote SOPA down, he adds.

Indeed, having several workarounds in place long before the bill is signed into law doesnt promise much good for SOPAs effectiveness.

If browsing a site through a single IP address is not supported, this other anti-SOPA plugin provides an alternative.

The idiots on Capitol Hill are making legislation without even a fundamental understanding of how the technology works. Even I could go into my router and change the DNS servers to something outside of US control. This add-on simply adds a layer of abstraction to the controls, and unless they make it illegal to circumvent domestic DNS servers, that’s pretty much what everyone will do anyway.

I envision a “great firewall” being setup by The Won and his minions.

Communist Amerika, here we come!

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posted on 12/21/2011 8:43:34 AM PST
by rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)

A public plea for Jim Robinson to post a anti-SOPA banner on FR’s header with links to contact your Congresscretins in opposition, and possibly banners and links in every thread comment section similar to the fundraising autoscripts.

FR will be targeted and confiscated as soon as enforcement begins if SOPA passes from bill to law.

As will every other forum that can be considered fellow travelers in the online advocacy field.

The Feral government - all three branches - are NOT needed in the internet world.

They should worry about their own networks.

They should pass no new laws and create no new regulations.

As things are right now, everything works.

Big business is far too worried about making money off of rogue countries.

That’s what we get for dealing with them at all.

IMHO, there should be zero commerce with rogue nations; if that was the case, we would not have 1/2 of our current problems and the good nations of the world would prosper tremendously.

Now we’re stuck with it. But IMHO, it is far wiser to let these companies that want to sell to these buggers work out their own problems with the buggers, than to start passing draconian control of the internet laws.

After all, if a market I’m selling to is such a festering rathole of thieves that I can’t make money - why am I there trying to sell to them ? Let the rathole fester and fall behind technologically. When they’re all starving and begging us for help, maybe they’ll listen and change. If not, lett’em starve.

Instead, we’re doing business with them which props up failed ideologies.

lol If simply http://’ing to an IP is all it takes to circumvent this, it’s a joke! There’s no point in even trying it.

If done it will not work, and then eventually, we’re gonna need.... You guessed it, ANOTHER FEDERAL LAW!(federal laws attempting to regulate the internet are ridiculous in their premise in the first place).

They should just get back to something less useful, in looking to ban guns because of what they look like......

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posted on 12/21/2011 10:18:38 AM PST
by abb
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